This podcast features human rights activist Lisa Sullivan speaking about Military Force and Empire: Latin America and THE SCHOOL OF THE AMERICAS. The event took place at the Memorial Union, University of Maine, Orono, ME on October 12, 2006 as part of the Fall 2006 Thursday series.
Lisa Sullivan works with the School of the America’s Watch and for Venezuela Information Center in Washington. With the Maryknoll sisters, she lived and worked for 25 years in Venezuela, and has been active in Mexico, Bolivia and other parts of Latin America.
In this program, Lisa Sullivan describes the efforts to close the US torture school now known officially as the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (WHINSEC). She discusses remarkable meetings with defense officials from various Latin American countries.
The talk preceded the November 17-19, 2006 rally across hemisphere to demand closure of the WHINSEC. This big event is an annual mass vigil at the gate of the WHINSEC compound in Fort Benning, GA.
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